Last year Christian pastor Reverend O Young Wen Feng (also known as Ngeo Boon Lin) married Phineas Newborn III in New York. O Young, who has written a book about Christianity and homosexuality, wanted to celebrate his marriage in his home country of Malaysia too – so last Saturday (4 August) they held the first publicized gay wedding reception in the country.

According to the Malaysian Insider, Jamil Khir also said that Malaysians should protest ‘en masse the practice of same sex marriages as it will erode the family institution’.

Jamil Khir also commented when the couple married in New York last year, saying it was an example of ‘extreme human rights’ and will ‘encourage liberalism’. He added: ‘we agree with human rights but such extremism that allows man and man to marry will create social problems’.